Ed Sheeran ain’t hurtin’ for cash!
Ed Sheeran’s ÷ (Divide) Tour carries on, sweeping through U.S. stadiums and impacting the Hot Tours recap dated Sept. 29, 2018. Most recently, Sheeran played a two-night engagement at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. on Sept. 21 and 22.
These stadium shows represent a leap forward for the British singer-songwriter, graduating from the North American arenas that marked the first several legs of the Divide Tour. Sheeran played three nights at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Sept. 29 – Oct. 1, 2017, playing to 41,066 fans and grossing $3.7 million, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore. Just one year later, he returned to the New York area at MetLife, selling 107,550 tickets and generating $11.2 million — three times the gross from the Barclays shows.
The Divide Tour began in Turin, Italy on Mar. 16, 2017 and has traveled around the world and back in the year and a half since. In that time, Sheeran has grossed $290.1 million and sold 3.3 million tickets across 149 dates reported so far. With 39 dates remaining over the next year, the trek could rise to compete with some of the highest-grossing tours of the decade before closing in Ipswich, England on Aug. 24, 2019.